Earlier this year, we heard about some tiny robots that used a bio-inspired mechanism to jump high into the air. The makers of those devices have now tweaked the design, creating bots that jump very ...

When a knot lets go, it doesn't just fall apart. It snaps. That simple observation led Penn Engineers to rethink what a knot ...

According to its developers, the tiny, soft robots are capable of leaping more than 6 ft into the air, flipping mid-flight ...

Researchers at Penn Engineering have turned a common nuisance—a knotted string—into a high-performance, heat-activated ...

Inspired by a simple children's toy, a jumping popper toy, researchers have unlocked a key to designing more agile and predictable soft robots. Soft robots, made from flexible materials, hold immense ...

The new record-breaking jumping robot can jump up to 32.9 meters (roughly 107 feet) into the air. A team of researchers created the robot while investigating the difference between biological and ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...